The Humble Puppy Bundle sounds… I really don’t know. Puppies are cute, so good. But a bundle of them, all at once? I can’t take on that much responsibility! Oh, and dogs are rubbish! Fortunately this is a Humble Weekly Bundle from Puppygames, consisting of the UK developer’s entire catalogue. And no actual baby animals. Which means you can pay what you want for Ultratron, Droid Assault, Titan Attacks and the very excellent Revenge Of The Titans, plus a bunch of soundtracks, and give a bundle of money to GamesAid. Oh, and the best video ever, featuring Ian Livingston!

Puppygames is a teeny team of three, led by CS Lewis character in poor disguise, Caspian Prince. They’ve made sure that the bundle is of intrigue, with updates to some games to reflect the season. That’s Droid Assault and Revenge Of The Titans, given what are described as “Christmas Modes”. And Ultratron and Droid Assault have also been given 2-player local co-op.

Titan Attacks broke even after 7 years, and Revenge of the Titans broke even as well, with major help from one of the first Humble Indie Bundles.

Hopefully this weekly will serve to more than break even for the rest :)

Kinda funny that in the response to one of the comments for that blog post, they said ““One does not simply… get in a Humble Bundle.” as Boromir might be paraphrased. They come to us; we don’t go to them. Same goes for everyone else.”

my roomate’s half-sister makes $86 every hour on the laptop. She has been laid off for five months but last month her income was $16579 just working on the laptop for a few hours. straight from the source… link to cpl.pw

This? But not a word about the 8 hour holiday sale at the humble store yesterday? Glad I’m on the mailing list, got in just in time to get Euro Truck Simulator 2 for $6.24. Lots of other great deals (including EUIV), but I was limiting myself to one game only in anticipation of the Steam sale. So far, the Humble Store sale had more better games for less money than the Vaporous One, but we’ve got a week yet, so we’ll see!

Indeed! After this happened in the very first Humble Indie Bundle, I had fervently hoped that all bundles would make the awesome move of offering their source code so that the games could live forever. Sadly, I think that was the only time it ever happened. Until now. If you’re reading this Puppy Games, you are awesome for doing that, and I sincerely hope you reach this target (in a sane world you would do so for that incredible video alone).

HEY RPS. Can you please make mention of the associated blog post, and the VERY IMPORTANT information it contains for people who already own these games via direct purchases from Puppy Games?

It’s worth reading the blog post regardless, but existing Steam-free customers need to be aware that Puppy Games have given up on direct sales and will no longer be keeping those versions up to date, so those customers will want to pay-what-they-want in this sale in order to get maintained versions of the games moving forwards.

It appears that if you’ve bought directly from them you can go to this page ======> link to puppygames.net and they’ll give you a Steam key for whichever games you’ve got. I’m on my cell so I can’t try that, though.

That… that’s what I said? Steam-free gamers who previously purchased the games directly will need to get the Humble Bundle in order to ensure they’ll have a maintained copy, because the ones they already have will no longer be updated.

Btw I don’t have a problem with that. I just wanted RPS to update the article so that the existing customers don’t go thinking they can safely ignore this bundle because they already have all the games (which is what I nearly did!). Buying the bundle for pay-what-you-want makes for an easy fix, but you have to know that you need to buy it!

Nah, we already give anyone who wants a Steam key for their direct versions one for nothing (link to puppygames.net) … or if your tinfoil hat is particularly tight, we’ll just chuck you a Humble version if you just ask.

Nice one! You should mention that (the humble key bit) in the Blog post as well? Hopefully you’ll still be able to hand those out after the bundle is over, so that people who missed all of this can still be sorted out painlessly.

The only problem that I have with this bundle is that the games are so excellent I’ve owned all of them for years now. Hell, before the Steam release of Ultratron, it was a completely different game, essentially. Glad it’s getting two player modes however. I may buy it just to give them more money.

In the spirit of Christmas, I have the following games spare on Steam, if anyone wants one of them:
– Half Life 2
– Call of Duty 4 (Modern Warfare)
– Payday: The Heist (two copies – NB, it’s the first game not the sequel)
– Space Marine

None of them new or exciting but, well, they’re just sat there are at the moment so if anyone wants one, just reply with your Steam ID below (I assume there are no security risks associated with putting one’s ID up? Never done this before).

If any of these are still available then a copy of Payday or Half Life 2 would be greatly appreciated and either would be fine. Both are games I’ve been meaning to play (That’s right I’ve never played Half Life…will be picking up the first in the next week whether it comes on sale or not!). My ID Is Fenryk.

Now with an absence of spare games on my Steam it’s time to find some other way of passing the Christmas spirit along.

Dunno if we’ll make $150k in the end… bundle is slow shifting. Lots of “meh” and “crap bundle” and “worst bundle EVAR” and “what, pay $3 for Steam keys!? Are you mad?” comments abound on the internets.

Puppygames are one of those companies who I really wish would get into the 3DS downloadable titles market. I’m pretty certain that they’d look amazing, fit brilliantly into the typical twenty minute “on the train” mobile gaming window and would sell well.

But small PC games development houses do tend to have a “screw you, I’m doing this because I only have my own standards” attitude, which I do admire. Developing for consoles does have a reputation for using the profession that they love to twist developers into shambling husks of men. Even the women.

The PC also has the advantage that no one owns it. Nintendo owns the 3DS hardware and determines what goes on there. They might even have some licencing fee for putting it on their platform or other hurdles.

As it happens… we’ve just got Titan Attacks on to XBLIG or whatever it’s called now. Ultratron and Droid Assault to follow. And all the titles are going to Playstation in the spring next year (PS3, PS4, PSP and Vita). Be interesting to see how Revenge turns out when played with a PS controller mind :S